The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 111
_Perrault was not so shy in admitting the authorship of his three verse stories--"Griselidis," "Les Souhaits Ridicules," and "Peau d'Asne."
Who acts: _ · What happens: not be, admit · To what, where: authorship
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 shy | nsubj |
| 2 | Perrault | Perrault | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shy | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 shy | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 shy | advmod |
| 6 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 admitting | mark |
| 8 | admitting | admit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 shy | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 authorship | det |
| 10 | authorship | authorship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 admitting | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 stories | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 stories | nmod:poss |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 stories | nummod |
| 14 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stories | compound |
| 15 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 authorship | nmod |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 Griselidis | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Griselidis | punct |
| 18 | Griselidis | Griselidis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 stories | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 shy | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 shy | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Ridicules | punct |
| 22 | Les | Les | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Souhaits | compound |
| 23 | Souhaits | Souhaits | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Ridicules | compound |
| 24 | Ridicules | Ridicules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 shy | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Ridicules | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Ridicules | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 d'Asne | cc |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 d'Asne | punct |
| 29 | Peau | Peau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 d'Asne | compound |
| 30 | d'Asne | d'asne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Ridicules | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 d'Asne | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 d'Asne | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | _ | Souhaits Ridicules and Peau d'Asne obl; shy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | admit speech: other | gerund | _ not said here | the authorship of _'s three verse stories Griselidis | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent authorship=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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